River Cafe Vacancies We’re looking for energetic and friendly seasonal staff with a great passion for food to work as Cafe Assistants in Timespan’s River Cafe to offer our visitors excellent customer service and high quality, fresh, locally sourced produce. River Cafe is staffed by a small friendly team so if you are good…

Join Timespan for a day of fun and craft for kids aged 7 to 13 in the spring mid-term break. Activities will include: Cyanotype workshop with Meg Telfer – make your own photo artwork using just the sun, found objects, and special paper. Discover a technique used to make early photos and blueprints. Basket…

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS | Deadline: 2 February 2018 “In nature nothing exists alone.” Rachel Carson Taking the environments and technologies of Scotland’s Far North as a rich context for practice and research, Timespan’s group residency offers resident artists the time to develop work and research within a discursive group setting. Timespan’s programme is theme-led, creating…

Manonabeach visited Helmsdale recently and asked the question “What does the beach mean to you?” Watch the short films and listen to some insights from the harbour and Timespan Museum. Jacquie’s Interview: Billy Cowie and Manonabeach interviews can be found at http://manonabeach.com/north-scotland/sutherland/helmsdale

Ghosting the Castle | Nicky Bird 15 + 16 November 2017 Join us for a series of interventions, events, and activities marking the culmination of Ghosting the Castle, a year-long project focusing on Helmsdale’s medieval castle and the A9 bridge which replaced it, developed by the artist Nicky Bird. Discover vintage Kodak Viewfinders around the village…

CRATER ROUTE WALK 2: EAGLE ROCK Sunday 3 September 2017, 9.00 £20 / person Local mountain guide John King leads the second of two walks along a newly mapped route that traces the edge of a meteorite impact crater made 1.2 billion years ago. 1.2 billion years ago, a meteorite hit the earth, creating an…

CRATER ROUTE WALK 1: GLEN CALVIE CIRCUIT Sunday 13 August 2017, 10.00 £15 / person Local mountain guide John King leads the first of two walks along a newly mapped route that traces the edge of a meteorite impact crater made 1.2 billion years ago. 1.2 billion years ago, a meteorite hit the earth, creating…

Susan Tichy with Margaret “Peggy” Yocom Tuesday 25 July 2017, 19.00 Join poet Susan Tichy who will read from her forthcoming book, The Avalanche Path in Summer, and speak briefly about her new project, NORTH/ROCK/EDGE, which has brought her from America to Sutherland. Both focus on rapidly changing edge spaces—mountains, coastlines, and North Atlantic islands…

Timespan is host to over 14,000 visitors a year and a large number of these visitors come to the River Cafe. We are looking for relief staff to work as Cafe Assistant in the River Cafe to offer these visitors excellent customer service and good locally prepared,…

This post is the second in a three-part blog series by our current Curatorial Intern Camilla Crosta focusing on the potential of art to affect social change. The first post can be read here and the third will be published shortly. In this second post, Camilla picks up on some questions raised in her first…